Prominent people in the Republican party will always support the nominee. You guys are expecting too much for any major player in the party to oppose Romney. You can’t go against the nominee without officially resigning as a member of the party. That’s a big step to ask someone to take when they are in a position to influence the party from the inside, hopefully for the good. The conservative activists are the ones who are in the position to be the “bad cops” here in enforcing conservatism within the party.
No, you misunderstand. I quit expecting anything of these people a long time ago.
"Conservative activists" have about as much power to enforce conservatism in the Republican Party as a lamb has to enforce vegetarianism in a pack of wolves.